What iPhone X tells us about Apple's plans for AR glasses

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: December 4, 2017 at 7:39:11 AM EST
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] What iPhone X tells us about Apple's plans for AR glasses
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> What iPhone X tells us about Apple’s plans for AR glasses
> By Darshan Shankar
> Nov 22 2017
> <https://blog.bigscreenvr.com/what-iphone-x-tells-us-about-apples-plans-for-ar-glasses-c23c3264eb88>
>
> The iPhone X started shipping last week to the public and while much of the discussion about the phone focused on 
> Face ID, Animoji and the notch, it’s far more interesting to read into what Apple is signaling for the future of 
> iPhone with this device.
>
> It is a glimpse at what will be possible in a few years, and what we’re seeing right now is clearly laying the 
> foundation for Apple’s next big product: Augmented Reality glasses.
>
> The TrueDepth sensor & FaceID is the most advanced facial detection and recognition hardware and software in the 
> world, but what it is capable of today is not as exciting as what it will be capable of tomorrow.
>
> The play
>
> It’s no coincidence that ARKit launched alongside the iPhone X. Apple’s next big platform is AR so by putting it on 
> everything from the iPhone 6 and above it’s now in millions of peoples’ hands — making it the biggest augmented 
> reality platform in the world.
>
> By doing this Apple is building up the content library it needs for a successful platform launch years ahead of 
> showing the world what the device that powers it might look like and gets developers comfortable with the building 
> blocks needed to succeed in a 3D-first world.
>
> Building out ARKit now gives developers time to create killer apps, and some have already launched many compelling 
> real-world demonstrations of its power, like IKEA’s Place app.
>
> This is an unusual departure for Apple. With the iPhone and Apple Watch, SDKs and toolkits were released to 
> developers only after the product was announced. This time, Apple is releasing ARKit a couple years before the 
> anticipated AR glasses.
>
> Take a second to realize the magnitude of the accomplishment here: in a fraction of a second, a tiny device in the 
> palm of your hand can recognize who we are and map our faces onto other objects, and track our emotions.
>
> The real-time motion capture (“mocap”) technology used to map your face in the iPhone X to create Animoji was 
> reserved for big-budget film studios until recently (side note: Apple also owns a company that creates those exact 
> motion effects for the Star Wars franchise).
>
> Apple is now able to accurately map out the details of your unique face in milliseconds, and drop that onto a 3D 
> model, or understand who you are uniquely — perfect for building out a database of people or letting you load on a 
> face filter that makes you look like Darth Vader.
>
> Fast forward a few years from this and put this sensor on a pair of augmented reality glasses: suddenly you can 
> identify the people you’re talking to (or about to) at a meetup or conference.
>
> That data, when used as a ambient data point with machine learning, could remind you: “this is Steve, you met at CES 
> 2021, and he now works at Google” and “this is Sara, who’s birthday is today.”
>
> [snip]
>
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